Spoon

Museum number:
1-1974
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Alternate number:
558 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
Description:
Made from deer horn (?). Uncarved, curved, concave.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Taxon:
Odocoileus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Context of use:
Woman's eating utensil.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 12.2 centimeters and width 2.1 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4850. Published: AAE, XXIV, 7, pl 105 a.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #8: Scripps College (October 31, 1979–April 18, 1980) and S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1974, described as Made from deer horn (?). Uncarved, curved, concave.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1974, described as Made from deer horn (?). Uncarved, curved, concave.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1974, described as Made from deer horn (?). Uncarved, curved, concave.

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